Albert Portnoy
Full Stack Developer at usecanopy
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlbert Portnoy is a Full Stack Developer based in Chicago with a decade of software experience and 5+ years focused on building scalable SaaS systems. He engineered a communications bot that handled 15k customers, 6k daily users, and 250k daily requests, demonstrating hands-on expertise in high-throughput backend design. Comfortable across Node.js/TypeScript, React, Svelte, MongoDB and Docker, he also brings moderate experience in Rust, Python and SQL. An active open-source contributor with 30+ repositories, he has improved real-world tooling such as the popular drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper by hardening signature generation and bypass techniques to keep scrapers resilient. Pragmatic and operations-minded, he pairs product-focused development with infrastructure know-how to ship reliable SaaS and community software.
10 years of coding experience
High School Diploma, Computer Programming, High School Diploma, Computer Programming at Evanston Township High School (ETHS)
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
api10
apidoc10
webscraping10
typescript-types10
jsdom9
nodejs9
mongoose6
html6
css6
material-ui6
react-hooks6
react6
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
drawrowfly/tiktok-scraper
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
TikTok Scraper. Download video posts, collect user/trend/hashtag/music feed metadata, sign URL and etc.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 11 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Albert primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the TikTok scraper. Their contributions included implementing signature generation to bypass request blocking, integrating a random verifyFp generation mechanism to increase the resilience of the scraper, and refactoring the code base by using JSDOM. Furthermore, they made changes to address blocked requests by adding necessary headers and prevent console logs from the underlying libraries. These modifications suggest a focus on improving the scraper's ability to access and extract data from the TikTok platform.
signtiktokvideometadatadownloader
asty8926/tagscript-syntax-highlighter
Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Web App to Highlight the syntax of TagScript in browser.
Contributions:2 reviews, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 5 months
highlightbrowsertagscripthighlighterhighlightjs
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